Medicine Quotes · Page 94

Your body has natural healing capacities that nobody in the field of medicine can pretend ultimately to understand.

— Wayne Dyer

“The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." -Cutting for Stone”

— Abraham Verghese

I do believe that laughter is the best medicine - it cures everything.

— Radhika Apte

Your accumulated offences do not surpass the multitude of God's mercies: your wounds do not surpass the great Physician's skill.

— Cyril of Jerusalem

“Your medicine men have repeatedly told you, ‘Life is a dream.’ You must decide whether you are the dream or the dreamer.”

— Shaman Elizabeth Herrera

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.

— Anton Chekhov

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.

— Peter Latham

Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to…

— Andrew Weil

[I am] confident that Congress will pass the Kennedy-Hatch KidCare bill, a first step toward the single-payer socialized medicine system that the…

— Phyllis Schlafly

“The learned man who does not act up to his knowledge is like a patient who describes the qualities of a medicine…

— Imam Al-Ghazali

I like to think about the bestseller list as, "This is the medicine cabinet of a very sick country." Let me look…

— Sandra Cisneros

You need to understand plant chemistry, be inured to discomfort and awesomely flexible. When something breaks down-the plane, the boat, you just…

— Chris Kilham

Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that he or she…

— Joel Fuhrman

The basic thing with adventure medicine or extreme medicine is that you are going to places where humans don't belong and people…

— Kenneth Kamler

Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what…

— Marlo Thomas

Be ashamed when you sin, don't be ashamed when you repent [To repent means to have a change of heart and mind.…

— Saint John Chrysostom

The American College of Sports Medicine found that the productivity of people after exercise was an average of 65 percent higher than…

— Chalene Johnson

The three of us have worked on the development of the small and totally harmless fruit fly, Drosophila. This animal has been…

— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Giving is better than receiving, 'cause that's the ability you give somebody to get stronger than they would be, than they could…

— Gary Busey

The battle over the validity of evolution has been publicly posed as a scientific one. However, you will find little sign of…

— Victor J. Stenger

I continue to hear concerns from health professional organizations that dried marijuana is not an approved drug or medicine in Canada. They…

— Rona Ambrose

Pasteur originally conceived the idea of germs and of destroying them. Although this started as a personal thing, it has mushroomed into…

— Michio Kushi

“At that time there were no written guidelines stating that doctors should not treat members of their families or themselves. Doctors routinely…

— George Nichopoulos

“Because I can't save anybody; not as a doctor, not as a son. And because I can't save anybody, I can't save…

— Chuck Palahniuk

An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.

— Andrew Taylor Still

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“I would not have believed how bad the modern corporate healthcare system was had I not used it and saw it with…

— Steven Magee

My mum wanted me to be a doctor like my dad, and at 7, I really wanted to be a politician, and…

— Leo Varadkar

The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.

— Barry Marshall

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

— Democritus

There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of care,

— Fidel Castro

I believe in holistic medicine, yoga, Pilates and so on. But I also believe in banana split sundaes once in a while.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

I believe I can do anything. If I decide I want to be a doctor tomorrow, I'm going to be a doctor.

— Amy Jo Johnson

He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.

— Chinese Proverb

What I'd love to do is every now and then go, 'Oh my God, I've got this amazing idea for 'Doctor Who.'

— Neil Gaiman

You must take a house beside the Physician. It will be a miracle if ye be the first sick that Christ hath…

— Samuel Rutherford

I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor.

— Susannah Cahalan

Makin' veterans run for medicine, Cause I put out more lights in a fight than ConEdison.

— Kool G Rap

Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.

— Martin Luther